Experimental / concrete / visual / sound poetry

 
 
Anton Bruhin - Dämonen
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
What would a current-day demon look like? The Swiss artist playfully rehabilitates these evil figures in 170 minimalist portraits—rendering them as an ideal type of the postmodern, at once terrifying and comical.
Ulises Carrión - (a, b, c)
2017
English edition
Boabooks
currently out of stock
In (a, b, c) Ulises Carrión presents one if his early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in green ink in 1972. The author observes and explores the structure of the sonnet. He develops fourteen interrelated sequences, which he uses as a key to codify a narrative. The text of each poem follows the schematic order of its title.
Ulises Carrión - In Alphabetical Order
2017
English edition
Boabooks
currently out of stock
Facsimile of the seminal magazine created by Ulises Carrión and Cres, originally published in 1979. In this photographic book—one of very few of Carrion's entire practice—the author is very critical about his own affiliation with the mail art movement. The book presents a series a photographs of his calling card filing box, which the author juxtaposes with witty and poignant captions.
Ulises Carrión - Rrr
2017
Boabooks
currently out of stock
Rrr reproduces typewritten pages written by conceptual artist Ulises Carrión in 1972. In his early linguistic exercises, Carrión played with the notion of learning by sounds and poetry. By creating his own onomatopoeia and sequences of repetition, he expresses his playful attitude towards poetry.
David Antin - Essais choisis sur l\'art et la littérature - 1966-2005
2017
French edition
<o> future <o>
A collection of essays on art and literature—most of them unpublished in French—by the American poet, performance artist, and critic.
Stefan Roigk - Sprachmusik (CD)
2017
Tochnit Aleph
A new electro-acoustic composition by Berlin-based artist Stefan Roigk. The radio play like combination of poetic lectures, vocals treatments, concrete sounds and deep vocal drones is based on several live recordings and performances made between 2012 and 2015.
 Selten Gehörte Musik - Tote Rennen Lieder (CD)
2017
Tochnit Aleph
19.00 14.50 €
Fifth part in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series: recordings by Dieter Roth and Oswald Wiener, at Mosfellssveit, Iceland, from May 28 to 30, 1976.
Jacques Donguy - Pd-extended 1 - Poésie numérique en Pure Data
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Reference monograph dedicated to the pioneer of digital poetry in France, including documentation illustrating recent projects as well as all theoretical texts on digital poetry written by Donguy from 1984 to 2015.
Jacques Donguy - Pd-extended 1 - Poésie numérique en Pure Data
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Reference monograph dedicated to the pioneer of digital poetry in France, including documentation illustrating recent projects as well as all theoretical texts on digital poetry written by Donguy from 1984 to 2015.
CRU (Curated Renegade Unidentified)
2016
French edition
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
The second issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine includes documents on Trevor Wishart, Denis Dufour, Hém-Ish, Ione, Broutin, François Poyet, Johannes Kreidler, Gil J Wolman at work, a film by Frédéric Acquaviva on the late Pauline Oliveros, Silva Gabriela Béju on Henri Chopin and the magazine OU, a set of posters and postcards…
Frédéric Acquaviva - Kiss Music (vinyl EP)
2016
AcquAvivA
First QR-Code EP, edition of 100 copies, recorded at EMS, Stockholm, December 2015, with the voices of Frédéric Acquaviva and Loré Lixenberg.
Anton Bruhin -
2016
English edition
Nero
This catalogue gathers works from different periods of the artist's career, though giving particular prominence to his drawings in analog and digital form—the Pixel-Bildli and Hice for Weiss series, or his plastic mosaics. A foreword by Salvatore Lacagnina and a contribution by Arthur Fink introduce the reader to Bruhin's multifarious work, while a conversation with the artist helps unfold his eclectic strategies.
Guy de Cointet -
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first monograph to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre.
Guy de Cointet -
2016
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first monograph to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre (available in English edition).
Julien Blaine - Lecture de 5 faits d\'actualité par un septuagénaire bien sonné
2016
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
23.00 11.50 €
Religious crimes, Rosetta spacecraft, Hillary Clinton, workers' struggle in France, Calais jungle: a critical commentary of the news by poet Julien Blaine.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 1 – Language and Misunderstanding
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: the first volume makes a case in favor of concretism in contemporary artistic practices.
Xavier Gayan - Les poètes sont encore vivants (DVD)
2016
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
A series of interviews with contemporary poets to understand a practice which seems today more incongruous than ever.
Change numérique - Édition intégrale de la revue Change (1968-1983)
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
The complete PDF edition of the avant-garde journal Change, created by Jean Pierre Faye in 1968: 42 facsimile issues in a 8482-page file with free-text search engine.
Marcel Broodthaers - Charles Baudelaire - Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes
2016
French edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Facsimile edition of an artist book by Marcel Broodthaers based on a verse from Baudelaire's poem La Beauté.
 Selten Gehörte Musik - Streichquartett 558171 (Romenthalquartett) (2 CD)
2016
Tochnit Aleph
Part four in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series, with a recording by Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Dieter Roth, and Gerhard Rühm originally published as a 3LP-Box by Hansjörg Mayer in 1975. Apart from the group session this edition also includes a duo piano session by Dieter Roth and Hermann Nitsch recorded in Stuttgart in November 1975.
Pierre Déléage - Repartir de zéro
2016
French edition
Mix
An encounter between ethnology and literature.
Celebrity Cafe
2016
French edition
Celebrity Cafe
Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia.
A.C. Hello - Naissance de la gueule
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poem of sheer brutality on the corporal incarnation of the language.
Invece - Cimendef et les hommes libres
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
15.00 7.50 €
Invece is an art and poetry review directed by Julien Blaine. It gathers contributions based on a specific theme. This third issue is dedicated to Cimendef, the legendary maroon from Bourbon Island.
Félicia Atkinson - A Readymade Ceremony (CD)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.
Frédéric Acquaviva - Loré Ipsum (3 CD)
2015
AcquAvivA
A piece for voice(s) an dead electronics with Loré Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano).
 Selten Gehörte Musik - 3. Berliner Dichterworkshop (CD)
2015
Tochnit Aleph
19.00 14.50 €
First part in the reissue series of all Selten Gehörte Musik records. This is the reissue of the first LP from 1973. Recordings of the 3rd Berliner Poetsworkshop (First Berliner Musicworkshop) with Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener, Berlin 12th & 13th July 1973.
 Selten Gehörte Musik - Das Münchner Konzert 1974 (2 CD)
2015
Tochnit Aleph
26.00 19.50 €
Third part in the reissue series of all the legendary Selten Gehörte Musik records from the 70's. Originally published as a 3LP-Box by Hansjörg Mayer in 1975, the Münchner Konzert 1974 is performed by all-star artist line-up of Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener, Hermann Nitsch and Günter Brus.
 Selten Gehörte Musik - Novembersymphonie (Doppelsymphonie) (2 CD)
2015
Tochnit Aleph
Second part in the reissue series of all Selten Gehörte Musik records. This is the reissue of the Double-LP from 1974. Recordings of the second Berliner Musicworkshop with Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener, Berlin 15th - 26th November 1973. Also included are the two bonus pieces from the 7'' single which came only with the first 100 copies of the original edition.
Poetic Series - Noon on the Moon
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
The fourth issue in the “Poetic Series” is a seasonally themed special issue, a festive anthology composed of contributions from more than twenty writers and artists.
Josef Bauer - Werke 1965-Heute / Works 1965-Today
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An introduction to Josef Bauer's oeuvre and practice.
Bernard Heidsieck - Abécédaire n° 6 - « Clef de Sol » – Été 2007
2015
Frac Franche-Comté - Alphabet series
Bernard Heidsieck's graphic ABC.
Raoul Hausmann et les avant-gardes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This publication aims to explore how the multiple production of Raoul Hausmann, a central figure of Dada, has helped to shape the art of modernity.
Bernard Heidsieck - Poésie action - Variations sur Bernard Heidsieck (livre / DVD)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Variations on...
Box set including a book and a film on DVD.
Julien Blaine - La poésie à outrance - À propos de la poésie élémentaire de Julien Blaine
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
A critical book: a reassessment of Julien Blaine's poetry and the aesthetic problems related to it.
Vanessa Place - Last Words (book / CD)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
Last Words is a dual-input device: a book associated with a sound piece built from the last statements of all inmates executed in Texas since the resumption of executions on December 7, 1982.
Poetic Series - Fear of Language
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
The third issue in the Poetic Series takes its title Fear of Language from the work of emerging Slovenian poet Katja Perat, featured alongside poetry by Judith Goldman and excerpts from Eileen Myles's forthcoming memoir, Afterglow. Artwork is provided by Willem de Rooij.
Hans Rudolf Zeller - s/t (vinyl LP)
2014
Edition Telemark
24.00 17.00 €
This LP edition is an attempt at collecting various elements of Hans Rudolf Zeller's work. All recordings have been made within the last 10 years, yet many of the underlying concepts date back to the 1960s or 1970s.
Hannah Weiner - Clairvoyant Journal 1974
2014
English edition
<o> future <o>
A publication based on the typescripts of Hannah Weiner's singular diary.
Alessandra Eramo - Roars Bangs Booms (vinyl 7\
2014
Corvo Records
This composition by Alessandra Eramo shows for the first time a vocal interpretation of eight onomatopoetic words from the Manifesto of Futurist Music The Art of Noises by Luigi Russolo, between sound poetry and noise.
Invece - Rain in the Face et ses guerriers
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
15.00 7.50 €
Invece is an art and poetry review directed by Julien Blaine. It gathers contributions based on a specific theme. This second issue is dedicated to Native American warchief Rain in the Face.
Jacques Sivan - Alias Jacques Bonhomme
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An experimental novel written by two powerful voices of French experimental poetry. With illustrations by Charles Pennequin.
Doc(k)s - Morceaux choisis – 1976-1989
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An anthology of the international avant-garde poetry journal created in 1796 by Julien Blaine.
Guy de Cointet - Who\'s that guy? - Tell me more  about Guy de Cointet (DVD)
2014
original version, bilingual susbtitles (English / French)
various
A film, a portrait of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces (interviews with John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Morgan Fisher, Paul McCarthy, Christophe Bourseiller, etc.).
Ben Vida - Slipping Control (vinyl LP)
2014
Shelter Press - Records
15.00 11.00 €
Ben Vida's new LP, based on a concrete poetry score / text piece.
Serge Pey - Agenda rouge de la résistance chilienne
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A collection of poems dedicated to the Revolutionary Left Movement's struggle against fascism in Chile.
Gerhard Rühm - Masoch - Eine rituelle Rezitation (CD)
2014
Tochnit Aleph
First release of Gerhard Rühm's Radio-Play “Masoch”. A ritual recitation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Ignatius von Loyola for one female and one male speaker, a chorus of speakers, and tape.
Bernard Heidsieck - Vaduz (map)
2014
various
currently out of stock
Numbered edition of Bernard Heidsieck's famous map of Vaduz.
Charles Pennequin - Ecluse de Kembs-Niffer - Bâtiment administratif et technique
2013
French edition
Al Dante - Architecture
(last copies available!)
This publication documents the architecture of the Kembs-Niffer lock in Alsace, conceived by Georges Heintz and Anne-Sophie Kehr. It also features the text of a performance from 2011 by Charles Pennequin.
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